What project 0480 buys
The Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Sensors and Processing project provides tools and methods necessary to maintain maritime superiority by preventing near-peer threat submarines from completing their hostile missions or disrupting the U.S. Navy's ability to control sea lanes of communication. Project 0480 provides funding for Engineering & Manufacturing Development and follow-on Production and Deployment of new and/or improved passive and active air ASW family of systems that enable cuing, search, detection, localization, track, and attack of subsurface targets. Smaller and quieter threat submarines drive requirements for continued advancement in ASW sensor capabilities for both open-ocean and littoral environments in order to overcome challenges associated with reduced target acoustic signatures and increased background clutter caused by the water depth, high volume of shipping, and commercial radio frequency interference. Multistatic Active Coherent Enhancements (MAC-E): PE 0604261N funds the incorporation of the capability into the P-8A Acoustic Operating Flight Program (AOFP), integration of the AOFP into the P-8A Mission suite and associated training system and Post Flight Analysis (PFA) tool updates. The remainder of the integration into the P-8A platform is accomplished via PE 0605504N. UnderSea Advantage (USA): USA is the next generation of multistatics. USA incorporates an incremental improvement upon the existing system and will be accomplished via three blocks. The first block (USAB1) adds the Digital DIFAR Vertical Line Array (DDVLA) sonobuoy (SSQ-145) and software modifications to meet required capability performance metrics. USAB1 will be funded in the following manner: Early development and technology maturation efforts are funded under PE 0603254N, and PE 0604261N funds the incorporation of the capability into the P-8A AOFP and integration of the AOFP into the P-8A Mission suite. 0604261N also funds the associated training system and Post Flight Analysis (PFA) tool updates. The remainder of the integration into the P-8A platform is accomplished via PE 0605504N.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 0480 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 41.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 41.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 40.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 44.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 45.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 46.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 46.9 |
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Conclude FR-115 DT/OT. Initiate Tactical Open Mission Systems (TOMS) software changes to add the SSQ-145 receiver. Conduct USAB1 DDVLA sonobuoy (SSQ-145) Critical Design Review (CDR).
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work System development and AAEMP for P-8A. Support software and hardware integration flight tests, data collection, and analysis for the acoustics program in order to develop updated fleet release software. Continue MAC-E CONOPS, tactics, techniques, and procedure training for P-8A test and continue additional MAC-E fleet introductory training (FIT) aligned to P-8A Increment 3 Block 2.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY26 to FY27 decrease is due reductions for higher priorities.
FY2026 plans — current year System development and AAEMP for P-8A. Support software and hardware integration flight tests, data collection, and analysis for the acoustics program in order to develop updated fleet release software. Continue MAC-E CONOPS, tactics, techniques, and procedure training for P-8A test and continue additional MAC-E fleet introductory training (FIT) aligned to P-8A Increment 3 Block 2.
Named performers on project 0480
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.